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Backend Engineer - Global E-Commerce (Commercial Platform)

AT TikTok
TikTok

Backend Engineer - Global E-Commerce (Commercial Platform)

Singapore

Responsibilities

About the team
The e-commerce industry has seen tremendous growth in recent years and has become a hotly contested space amongst leading Internet companies, and its future growth cannot be underestimated. With millions of loyal users globally, we believe TikTok is an ideal platform to deliver a brand new and better e-commerce experience to our users. Our product engineering team is responsible for building an e-commerce ecosystem that is innovative, secure and intuitive for our users. We are looking for passionate and talented people to join us as we drive the future of e-commerce here at TikTok.

The Commercial Platform team is responsible for development of data analytics & data-empowered platform capabilities across Global E-Commerce. Our mission is to empower our users to leverage and extract actionable insights from data to maximise their potential and efficiency on the global e-commerce platform. In essence, we want to extract facts, attribute causes and predict the future from oceans of data; and our fundamental goals are to reflect business impact, leverage data to support key decisions by lowering decision making complexity and optimising decision making efficacy and efficiency.

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Responsibilities
- Undertake the core system research and development work of the global e-commerce operation platform, deeply participate in the construction of multiple core systems, undertake system design, development and maintenance work, and continuously optimize and improve.
- Deeply understand the business, possess good business modeling skills, be able to combine business scenario abstraction, reasonably complete technical selection, and promote implementation.
- Undertake stability construction work, including domestic and foreign multi-data center scheduling, stability governance, loss prevention and control, disaster recovery downgrade, etc.
- Provide professional and technical skills to support the professional growth of individual team members.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Programming & System Analysis, Science (Computer Studies) or related discipline.
- Candidate should have at least 5 years of experience in constructing distributed backend systems.
- Proficient in software programming with a deep understanding of data structures and algorithms; demonstrates excellent code design and coding style.
- Well-understanding with mainstream distributed system platforms and tools: programming languages (Java/Golang/Python/C++), databases and caches (Mysql/PostgreSQL/Redis), message queue platforms (Kafka/RocketMQ) etc.
- Strong software programming capabilities, exhibits good code design and coding style.

Preferred Qualifications
- Sensitive to data, with experience in developing e-commerce related business products.
- Familiarity with big data technology stack including Flink, Spark, ClickHouse, Hive.
- Sensitive to business, able to quickly understand business background, with excellent technical and business integration ability, good demand abstraction ability and architecture ability.
- Proactive and self-driven, with a deep understanding of business and communication with various roles in the business, able to quickly advance projects and solve problems.
- A great collaborator who thrives in fast-paced, culturally diverse global team environments.

Client-provided location(s): Singapore
Job ID: TikTok-7316848561173842226
Employment Type: Other

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • HSA
    • Life Insurance
    • Fitness Subsidies
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
    • On-Site Gym
    • Mental Health Benefits
    • Virtual Fitness Classes
  • Parental Benefits

    • Fertility Benefits
    • Adoption Assistance Program
    • Family Support Resources
  • Work Flexibility

    • Flexible Work Hours
    • Hybrid Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Casual Dress
    • Snacks
    • Pet-friendly Office
    • Happy Hours
    • Some Meals Provided
    • Company Outings
    • On-Site Cafeteria
    • Holiday Events
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Paid Vacation
    • Paid Holidays
    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Leave of Absence
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K) With Company Matching
    • Performance Bonus
    • Company Equity
  • Professional Development

    • Promote From Within
    • Access to Online Courses
    • Leadership Training Program
    • Associate or Rotational Training Program
    • Mentor Program
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
    • Employee Resource Groups (ERG)

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